From mjh@star.bris.ac.uk Wed Mar 15 12:09:29 2000
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From: Martin Hardcastle <mjh@star.bris.ac.uk>
To: dmw@star.bris.ac.uk
Subject: Re: Reply: Re: Recent Publications (fwd)
Cc: mb1@star.bris.ac.uk, bremer@star.bris.ac.uk, 
	sxp@star.bris.ac.uk
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 12:09:28 +0000
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It looks as though it should be fairly simple to write a script that updates
our own publication pages from the IRIS pages -- this could be done
automatically and regularly. As Diana says, if we wanted astro-ph (or other)
links we would still need to maintain a table matching the IRIS data to a
suitable URL -- but this wouldn't be hard to do. To be sure of how much work
it would be I'd need to know what the IRIS URL is.

There does seem to be an audience out there for our publications pages -- the
logs show that there have been about 1,100 requests for pages in that area
since summer last year. Of course, we have no idea what use people are making
of them, but this does suggest that we might not want to discontinue them
altogether.

Diana's point about research pages is a good one. I've been trying
sporadically to get people to give me contributions or updates to the existing
research page, http://www.star.bris.ac.uk/research.html, which is both out of
date and dull compared to, say, those of other groups within the physics
department. To do research pages properly we would really need a designated
person from each of our sub-groups to agree to maintain a separate page,
though, and there doesn't seem to be much enthusiasm for this idea out
there...

Martin